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we're gonna use an electric motor. we're gonna hook up that gasoline engine, and the two of them together will give us unbelievable efficiency, and not only that, but the car will run extremely clean. >> this might even be more ghetto than usual. we found milk crates. i think we're gonna build the, uh, the prototype battery box out of milk crates, so it's a new low for us. >> so, we have to get everything in the car, the battery packs, make sure the motors are running, just to make sure that we can test it out before the competition. >> there's a little mathematical formula that tells us how much current this is gonna put out. it's gonna put out as much as it can. >> we've got to be very careful how we assemble this battery pack because once we put a few batteries together and hook them together, there's enough voltage there to actually kill somebody. >> we don't have million dollar computers that run cad software simulations. we don't have 70 engineers like cornell university, and you can assign 20 this and 20 that. >
we're gonna use an electric motor. we're gonna hook up that gasoline engine, and the two of them together will give us unbelievable efficiency, and not only that, but the car will run extremely clean. >> this might even be more ghetto than usual. we found milk crates. i think we're gonna build the, uh, the prototype battery box out of milk crates, so it's a new low for us. >> so, we have to get everything in the car, the battery packs, make sure the motors are running, just to make...
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are about to hit us. and what's going to happen is that the bush era tax cuts, which benefit all of us, are about to expire. it's approximately $2,200 tax increase next year. next year for everybody. the payroll tax cut will expire. that's a 2% cut that everybody is receiving right now. and there's a whole bunch of other tax stuff. but there's also $110 billion in immediate spending cuts next year. hatch to the pentagon, half to domestic -- half to the pentagon, half to domestic programs. roll it all together and if they don't do anything, the stalemate that persisted over the budget for last two years doesn't get resolved, you got a $600 billion hit to the economy that many economists believe will plunge us back into recession. gwen: i have to have a reality check there. what the president proposed this week, do anything to push that cliff back? >> no. and that is what was interesting about their decision to try to -- well, it's two things. one, they said let's do this now. we can agree on the middle cla
are about to hit us. and what's going to happen is that the bush era tax cuts, which benefit all of us, are about to expire. it's approximately $2,200 tax increase next year. next year for everybody. the payroll tax cut will expire. that's a 2% cut that everybody is receiving right now. and there's a whole bunch of other tax stuff. but there's also $110 billion in immediate spending cuts next year. hatch to the pentagon, half to domestic -- half to the pentagon, half to domestic programs. roll...
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plus, he always made us smile. thanks for that, bill. keep up with daily developments with me on the pbs news hour and then we'll see you again right here next week on "washington week." good night. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> this rock has never stood still. since 1875, we've been there for our clients through good times and bad. when their needs changed, we were there to meet them. through the years from insurance to investment management, from real estate to retirement solutions, we've developed new ideas for the financial challenges ahead. this rock has never stood still. and that's one thing that will never change. prudential. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by norfolk southern. boeing. additional funding for "washington week" is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viee you. om thank you.
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. >> i believe what's stopping us is not our capacity to meet our challenges but our politics. gwen: we peer through the lens with a special political roundtable, chuck babington of the associated press, dan balz of the "washington post," jan crawford of cbs news and amy walter from abc news. >> award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capitol, this is washington week with gwen ifill, produced in association with national journal. corporate funding for washington week is provided by >> one line helps communities turn plans into reality, helps shippers forge a path to prosper ity, helps workers get back to work. one line is is an engine for the economy and the future. norfolk southern, one line, infinite possibilities. >> we know why we're here, to chart a greener path in the air and in our factoryies. >> to find cleaner, more efficient ways to power flight. >> and harness our technology for new energy solutions. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to build a better tomorrow. >> that's why we're here.
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denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize john adams because of the mini series and sam adams because of a beer. that's just the way it is. the other men, i think if you look at them across their professions, some of them were lawyers, some were doctors. kreiger politicians. a large number made their income from agricultural work, whether that was a large plantation in the south or a small farm. >> these were men who enjoyed a role of prominence, that's how they ended up in the continental congress. some of them started out from humble beginnings. not the majority of them but there ar
denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize...
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captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- know how much the polling actually tells us at this stage of the presidential campaign, but i would think that the campaign team and not be happy to read the latest abc news-"washington post" poll puts a barack obama and mitt romney 47%, tie. voters like the president more than mitt romney, but disapprove of his job performance more than approve and think romney would do better with the economy. the president has been trying to pin a label of job outsourcer- in-chief on mitt romney while patting himself on the back for saving general motors. >> my experience has been working with members of labor and great managers to save the auto industry. >> romney as a response to that. >> this president has been outsourcing a good deal of american jobs himself, by putting money into energy companies, solar and wind energy companies, that make their products outside the united states. >> speaking of wind energy, i wonder at this stage of the campaign how much of the stock the voters are absorbing. it keeps us busy and keeps political consul
captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- know how much the polling actually tells us at this stage of the presidential campaign, but i would think that the campaign team and not be happy to read the latest abc news-"washington post" poll puts a barack obama and mitt romney 47%, tie. voters like the president more than mitt romney, but disapprove of his job performance more than approve and think romney would do better with the economy. the president has been...
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to be a factory here, used to be a payroll, used to be a middle class here where jobs have gone. offshoring, outsourcing. you know they left in their wake is lost payrolls in many cases lost lives. so i think the fact that mitt romney's credential to run for president is not as massachusetts governor which he doesn't talk about at great length s his leadership in business. and his ability to create jobs. and bain is his company. you know this is about whether in fact es gaeing to have to disclose his income over the past and his financial situation. i means that's-- . >> woodruff: tax returns. >> tax returns, it's all of the piece, it's cayman islands, it's bermuda, swiss bank accounts, outsourcing. this is somebody that doesn't understand what are you going through and what your family is going through. >> woodruff: so it's a lot bigger or not, michael than outsourcing? >> it's the obama campaign that made this not just about outsourcing but accuse mitt romney personally of lying on government documents which is a felony. that's what campaign officials did this. for that kind of
to be a factory here, used to be a payroll, used to be a middle class here where jobs have gone. offshoring, outsourcing. you know they left in their wake is lost payrolls in many cases lost lives. so i think the fact that mitt romney's credential to run for president is not as massachusetts governor which he doesn't talk about at great length s his leadership in business. and his ability to create jobs. and bain is his company. you know this is about whether in fact es gaeing to have to...
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the assault weapons ban to cover the weapon used by james holmes in aurora. it did limit magazines to 10 bullets. he had 100. jamming, he would have killed twice, three times as many. why is it that after katrina, we said that we had to do something about the levees? after 9/11, we agreed we had to do something about security and terrorism. but something like columbine, something like aurora, virginia tech -- no, no, we are helpless, pitiable giants, because the nra is all-powerful. >> the reason we cannot do it is not because of a lobby but because of the cowardice of the democrats. we don't have a debate on gun control in the country. we have it on talk shows, but not in congress. if you have a debate, you have one party on one side and the other on the other it did a democrat would not even give his name in nina's quotation here. if you want to blame it on the lobby, you are barking up the wrong tree. the lobby in the sugar quotas is the minority that the majority would oppose if they cared or knew about it. hear, it is not the nra representing a minority.
the assault weapons ban to cover the weapon used by james holmes in aurora. it did limit magazines to 10 bullets. he had 100. jamming, he would have killed twice, three times as many. why is it that after katrina, we said that we had to do something about the levees? after 9/11, we agreed we had to do something about security and terrorism. but something like columbine, something like aurora, virginia tech -- no, no, we are helpless, pitiable giants, because the nra is all-powerful. >>...
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gwen: what do we know of the weapons that he used here? there always is a talk in terms of guns and the use of guns and access to guns after something like this. >> he had an arsenal. he had no criminal record to speak of, other than a speeding ticket. so he was able to buy his guns legally. he had an ar-15 style assault rifle, a shotgun and two handguns that he bought recently legally at two gun stores in the area. gwen: you made a point that these were legal weapons. were they legal everywhere, the weapons that he had with him? >> pretty much. look, in this country when you're not a convicted felon, when you're not mentally adjudicated as insane, you can buy weapons freely across the country. he went into a store, went through a background check, and again, because he had no criminal background to speak of, he was able to buy these weapons with no problem. gwen: we know, then, in that case who james holmes, the suspect is not. what do we know about who he is? >> what we know is that he was a neuroscience major, a person who had been a me
gwen: what do we know of the weapons that he used here? there always is a talk in terms of guns and the use of guns and access to guns after something like this. >> he had an arsenal. he had no criminal record to speak of, other than a speeding ticket. so he was able to buy his guns legally. he had an ar-15 style assault rifle, a shotgun and two handguns that he bought recently legally at two gun stores in the area. gwen: you made a point that these were legal weapons. were they legal...
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directing allies and telling us how to run our enterprises -- directing our lives and telling us how to run our enterprises. we know where that leads. it leads to chronic high unemployment, like europe as, low wage growth, like europe as, a potential fiscal calamity, like we're seeing at the doorstep of europe today. >> we don't mind visiting europe, but we don't want to be like that, mark. >> no, we don't want to be like germany, where median wages have gone up 30% last 20 years while they have gone up 4% in the united states, while they have taken a third world country, east germany, and made them seem as part of the national prosperity. i look at the economy and think there is no way barack obama can be reelected, and then i look at mitt romney i think that there is no way barack obama can lose. [laughter] >> i would love to be germany, but germany has a work ethic that we do not. and a willingness by politicians to be honest. they were absolutely clear about what this was going to entail, sacrifice. we will give up stock because in the long run it will make u s. >> and don't forg
directing allies and telling us how to run our enterprises -- directing our lives and telling us how to run our enterprises. we know where that leads. it leads to chronic high unemployment, like europe as, low wage growth, like europe as, a potential fiscal calamity, like we're seeing at the doorstep of europe today. >> we don't mind visiting europe, but we don't want to be like that, mark. >> no, we don't want to be like germany, where median wages have gone up 30% last 20 years...
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thank you very much. >> thanks for having us. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. >> funding for charlie rose has been provided by the coca-colabe company, supporting this program since 2002. and american express. additional funding provided by byan bbendom,rg,by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide.by
thank you very much. >> thanks for having us. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. >> funding for charlie rose has been provided by the coca-colabe company, supporting this program since 2002. and american express. additional funding provided by byan bbendom,rg,by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide.by
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the regime shot at us, tortured us and no one came to our aid except these guys. and maybe some are my cousins and uncles and brothers. they picked up guns, they came here to defend us and we welcome them. they say this despite the fact that the rebels' presence in their town sometimes brings the ire of the government. it might mean that civilian homes get shelled. that people died. they say we don't care, we're willing to take that risk because these are the people here to protect us. so the rebels have hearts and minds in these towns. >> reporter: the morale overall though was what? what did you find? >> people were willing to stay on message, especially when talking to western journalists "we support the rebels, we support the cause. any day now we'll take down the regime." while i was inside syria there was this high level attack inside damascus that killed four high-ranking officials in the syrian government. i think that was a real morale boost and a few days after that you saw a lot of units going to aleppo. i was very close to aleppo, syria's largest city
the regime shot at us, tortured us and no one came to our aid except these guys. and maybe some are my cousins and uncles and brothers. they picked up guns, they came here to defend us and we welcome them. they say this despite the fact that the rebels' presence in their town sometimes brings the ire of the government. it might mean that civilian homes get shelled. that people died. they say we don't care, we're willing to take that risk because these are the people here to protect us. so the...
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thank you very much. >> thanks for having us. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. >> funding for charlie rose h been provided by the coca-cola company, supporting this program since 2002. and american express. additional funding provided by these funders. lydaanblobendom a , bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. ed mapp grew up going to the movies. i think back on my childhood and remember how important movies were to me. at that time, it was the only way to see the outside world. ed decided to be a professor - an expert on the impact of the media. today you have television. people have at least one tv set in their home. whatever messages coming on that screen is being extended to the entire family. now that's awesome. can be affecting our country and culture for years to come. that's one of the reasons why public television is so important, because it does assume that responsibility. ed included his public television station in his will. consider join
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my experience is use the tools and use the digital world. never lose sight of the world to reach out and talk to people who do not share your view. listen and see if you can find a way to compromise. we're not compromising enough in our political life. we're arguing and shouting and sticking with our predetermined points of view. our orthodoxy. >juncker you talk about that in the text and sends you mention your grandchildren, it will have a chance to receive the best education this country can afford but you started out in public education. it will be one of those issues, there is the miss education of america's children that you talked about in the book. tell me more. >> i talked about it all the time. my wife and i are committed to helping those citizens, youngsters coming along to do well in life. we talk about the education system and -- as if the education of our children has to do with schools. we have to have the best schools in our poor neighborhoods and we want to have the best teachers and pay the best teachers. the education of a
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and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were, and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa becomes a template to where aids is in the subsaharan continent all the other countries will follow suit and michel sidibe spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning saying there was so much hope for africa now that south africa has its house in order. and president'm beck kay said if you have aids you get a shot and it goes away. or it's causeded by poverty. we faced those issues. now the new regime, they really paid attention and when south africa speaks, the whole of africa will listen. >> ifill: you have harsh words in your b
and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were, and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa...
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klaus kleinfeld joins us on monday. he'll talk about how the giant aluminum maker did in the 2nd quarter and the outlook for the rest of the year. >> susie: when it comes to customer service, sometimes you have to give customers more than what they ask for. this week lou's been thinking about dandelions. here's author and educator lou heckler. >> my son is not a little boy any more. he just turned 40. i was smiling the other day when i thought about a special moment when he was about the age his older daughter now is. he came into the house and handed my wife a bunch of dandelions he had picked in the back yard. "these are so sweet," she beamed as he looked on with pride, "but they look kind of smashed." "i know," he responded immediately. i stomped on every one to make sure there were no bees. as a business speaker and writer, i think all the time about what business is really about. i know it's about finding a need and filling it. but the older i get-- maybe i should say the more experienced i get-- i think it's reall
klaus kleinfeld joins us on monday. he'll talk about how the giant aluminum maker did in the 2nd quarter and the outlook for the rest of the year. >> susie: when it comes to customer service, sometimes you have to give customers more than what they ask for. this week lou's been thinking about dandelions. here's author and educator lou heckler. >> my son is not a little boy any more. he just turned 40. i was smiling the other day when i thought about a special moment when he was...
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it is a year-round commitment, and i think they are being terribly used. i do not think it's fair to nick savin to get close to $6 million. he do not play the game. they play the game. tavis: got a minute to go. let me come back to the book "father's day." i do not want to put you necessarily in a position of offering advice to parents of mentally challenged kids, but what's your advice to fathers, though, who have sons who, for whatever reason, they are struggling to establish a connect with in their relationship? >> my advice would be, and i did reality, and then i think things will flow to you that you always wanted. there are all different ways of measuring success. it took me a long time to realize it's not about going to an ivy league school. it's not about the kind of job you had. making the best of it to build a world for yourself. if you can get there, the love and the appreciation and the pride, i believe, will come. tavis: so character trumps intellect. >> no question. tavis: the new book from buzz is into the mind and heart of my extraordinary
it is a year-round commitment, and i think they are being terribly used. i do not think it's fair to nick savin to get close to $6 million. he do not play the game. they play the game. tavis: got a minute to go. let me come back to the book "father's day." i do not want to put you necessarily in a position of offering advice to parents of mentally challenged kids, but what's your advice to fathers, though, who have sons who, for whatever reason, they are struggling to establish a...
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so the olympic venues are not used or used very infrequently afterwards. the birds' nest in beijing is scarcely used right now even though it cost close to a billion dollars to build. wit>> with everything just mentioned we have been using the phrase "too big to fail" when referring to the big banks. are the olympics to big to stage. >> that is an issue on the plate of the international olympic committee these days. and the debate in backstage international circles. putting on a game is quite aside ifrom the legacy economic issues is such an operational challenge and has become exceedingly more so, we forget about beijing as a model. there you have complete state control and unlimited budget and as a consequence organizational issues were almost non-existent. there were other political issues of course. but for cities like london and other upcoming cities, things have gotten extremely difficult just to manage. we actually in contrast to something that anders said earlier there is only three bidding december now fo--citiesw for the 2020 games and two madrid
so the olympic venues are not used or used very infrequently afterwards. the birds' nest in beijing is scarcely used right now even though it cost close to a billion dollars to build. wit>> with everything just mentioned we have been using the phrase "too big to fail" when referring to the big banks. are the olympics to big to stage. >> that is an issue on the plate of the international olympic committee these days. and the debate in backstage international circles....
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was his vision and hope for us. and i always say that if we live out our visions for our children in our policies and decision wes make as adults, if we do that everyday not just for our own children but if we're thinking about all of our children we will always get where we need to go. and i can tell you that is really the only thing i'm talking about on the campaign trail. i'm just trying to help people that none of this is about us because we are only here because of our fathers and grandfathers, those people in our lives who made huge, painful sacrifices for us and it's our turn to do the same. if we continue to do that we will build a vibrant... continue to build a vibrant society and we have always moved forward in this country. always have. i can't think of a time in understanding the history of this country where we've moved backwards. where women have had fewer rights, where children have been more vulnerable. so we're making progress but sometimes it's hard in a day to day struggle to remember that and tha
was his vision and hope for us. and i always say that if we live out our visions for our children in our policies and decision wes make as adults, if we do that everyday not just for our own children but if we're thinking about all of our children we will always get where we need to go. and i can tell you that is really the only thing i'm talking about on the campaign trail. i'm just trying to help people that none of this is about us because we are only here because of our fathers and...
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>> we are asking god to send us the rain we need. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> bain capital, of sourcing, short tracks offshore tax accounts, tax returns. mitt romney has been on the defensive even though the issue on which he chooses to run, the economy, runs a slow pace. at has been about romney's bain capital and his refusal to release tax returns even though some republicans want him to do so. >> romney has released just one full year of his tax returns. >> he has no one in new to blame, he is out of touch with what is happening in the country and that is why in november we will put him out of office. >> why doesn't romney just released the tax returns, charles? >> gordo, you are killing me. this is the week where obama makes the gaffe of the year and you lead with the taxes? look, i will play along. this is an arm of the dnc, but i will play along. [laughter] john mccain released two years, and john kerry -- terry's wife, who, as willie sutton would say, is where the money is, never releas
>> we are asking god to send us the rain we need. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> bain capital, of sourcing, short tracks offshore tax accounts, tax returns. mitt romney has been on the defensive even though the issue on which he chooses to run, the economy, runs a slow pace. at has been about romney's bain capital and his refusal to release tax returns even though some republicans want him to do so. >> romney has released just one full...
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we did a prayer for those, and everyone around us that are struggling with the event. >> anita is from aurora. this is the first she is meeting greg of illinois but he has been here before. he makes crosses for those who passed away. >> i brought them up here before, for the columbine school shootings, and for a police officer that got killed on his motorcycle. and a lady that got run over on the street, and i've been to colorado many, many times, but just to see this happen again, this massacre. >> he drove 16 hours to place his crosses near this memorial for the victims of the theater shooting but his work isn't done. >> i'm going to put a small set of crosses up at rebel hill, like columbine high school again, because everybody in chicago is asking me about columbine so just think it's important we remember both. >> josh and shana believe it's personality to teach their children that the community is greater than an act of violence. >> for my children to learn that bad things happen in this world, but this is how we in our world respond. we take care of each other and take care of e
we did a prayer for those, and everyone around us that are struggling with the event. >> anita is from aurora. this is the first she is meeting greg of illinois but he has been here before. he makes crosses for those who passed away. >> i brought them up here before, for the columbine school shootings, and for a police officer that got killed on his motorcycle. and a lady that got run over on the street, and i've been to colorado many, many times, but just to see this happen again,...
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thank you for joining us! thank you so much. (audience chanting "stephen") (cheers and applause) wow! thank you so much. folks nation, you know years and billions of dollars our presidential election is going to come down to a few undecided voters in key swing states. the fate of our country now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register mcdonald's. (laughter) and one-- one of those key swing states is nevada where, since 1978 their presidential election ballot gives voters the option to choose "none of the above." (laughter) but now, folks, the nevada republican party has gone to court to have "none of the above" taken off the ballot because, as the "national journal" put it, in nevada none is a fearsome foe for the g.o.p. (laughter) that's right. nevada republicans are scared that "none of the above" could take votes from mitt romney. (laughter) and, folks, i tell you, i think they've got grounds here. remember, mitt's not tells us how he's going to fix the economy or wh
thank you for joining us! thank you so much. (audience chanting "stephen") (cheers and applause) wow! thank you so much. folks nation, you know years and billions of dollars our presidential election is going to come down to a few undecided voters in key swing states. the fate of our country now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register mcdonald's. (laughter) and one-- one of those key swing states is nevada where, since 1978...
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and it's still with us. it's still with us, because ultimately, as a social problem, crime has become like it was in the jim crow south, a mechanism to control black people's movement in cities. just as douglas blackmon described in "slavery by another name" -- >> a great book, by the way. >> a great book -- >> what happened to blacks after the civil war, how they were freed. >> right. the invention of convict leasing as a mechanism to -- i mean, they had many sources, but one was an economic project to rebuild the south on the backs of imprisoned, leased african americans sold to private industry. and the net simply widened, because there was a lot of money to be made in doing that kind of work. in douglas blackmon's work, we learn how elastic were laws like vagrancy laws, intended effectively to empower any citizen and/or law enforcement official to check the papers of a black person moving freely along the world. and if you couldn't prove that you were currently employed, bound to a tenant farming contrac
and it's still with us. it's still with us, because ultimately, as a social problem, crime has become like it was in the jim crow south, a mechanism to control black people's movement in cities. just as douglas blackmon described in "slavery by another name" -- >> a great book, by the way. >> a great book -- >> what happened to blacks after the civil war, how they were freed. >> right. the invention of convict leasing as a mechanism to -- i mean, they had many...
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they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male, female, demographic information. and mitt romney's, they don't have as many examples on mitt romney's fund-raising but while team obama is using sarah jessica parker and george clooney dinners as fund-raising tools, romney has just sent out an e-mail, or his campaign has, inviting people win a day on the road with mitt if you contribute a few dollars. >> and they have done that with president obama. you could have dinner with both the president and michelle. that was something done a few months ago. that was copy cat exercise. >> suarez: and it doesn't really cost much more. unlike campaigns that reall
they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male,...
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(laughter) >> stephen: will you sing us a few things, or rapster us a few things about the things people go through? >> yes, i will. >> stephen: life is good and it's great to have you here. we'll be right back with a performance by nas. thank you, sir. (cheers and applause) i'm female spirit present. it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever you are. ya, no. he's over here. >>in the refrigerator? >> stephen: here to perform "the don" off his new album "life is good" ladies and gentlemen, nas. (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ new york city... (cheers and applause) let's go! ♪ in the new york city, yo, yo, yo. ♪ smoking an escubano, there go my second bottle ♪ ♪ habitual happiness hit you with two tecs ♪ rocking roberto cavalli, no shirt on a convertible, my chropl beeiana mommy ride beg side me ♪ every tat mean something ♪ y'all was mad all the years i was ge
(laughter) >> stephen: will you sing us a few things, or rapster us a few things about the things people go through? >> yes, i will. >> stephen: life is good and it's great to have you here. we'll be right back with a performance by nas. thank you, sir. (cheers and applause) i'm female spirit present. it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding....
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join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, scenes from the opening of a newly restored buddhist temple in siberia which had been destroyed under stalin. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, dedicated to education. additional funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. the estate of william j. carter. the jane henson foundation. and the corporation for public broadcasting.
join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, scenes from the opening of a newly restored buddhist temple in siberia which had been destroyed under stalin. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, dedicated to education. additional funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're...
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bridges and thanks for being with us tonight. we need to vote issues this time not race not color of skin thank you you're welcome thanks for joining us it's time to fight for a federal right to vote in the united states and put an end to this partisan attack on democratic voters that the koch brothers alec organization is pushing nationwide . in other news five hundred days have now passed since the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan began and one thing is clear it's still an extremely dangerous situation japanese newspapers reporting the plant operators still face a number of hurdles before they can decommission the plant and officially close the book on the crisis and it could take decades one of those hurdles includes trying to determine why eight million back or els of radioactive cesium still continues to pour out of reactor number two every single hour and plant operators still have no clue how they're going to remove massive pools of highly radioactive spent fuel from the roofs of the reactors as the newspaper reports not
bridges and thanks for being with us tonight. we need to vote issues this time not race not color of skin thank you you're welcome thanks for joining us it's time to fight for a federal right to vote in the united states and put an end to this partisan attack on democratic voters that the koch brothers alec organization is pushing nationwide . in other news five hundred days have now passed since the fukushima nuclear crisis in japan began and one thing is clear it's still an extremely...
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correspondent brings us more. occupy wall street movement many recognize for its boisterous voices makeshift tents and violent clashes with police. who many have said it's on hiatus the sleeping giant isn't going away anytime soon after the crackdowns on encampments across all major u.s. cities many protesters gathered to regroup and reenergize the movement. others have to live bring its message to the encampments have been wiped out. or not as visible but that doesn't mean that we're not working just as hard as we were before behind the scenes the most recent protests kicked off in philadelphia the city of brotherly love consider this is like a convention and people here are delegates for their occupy groups and i have heard a number that there are about ninety two different occupy groups represented here this is the five day gathering for occupy wall street protesters the first national gathering in the entire country since the inception of this movement a gathering in philadelphia on independence day because th
correspondent brings us more. occupy wall street movement many recognize for its boisterous voices makeshift tents and violent clashes with police. who many have said it's on hiatus the sleeping giant isn't going away anytime soon after the crackdowns on encampments across all major u.s. cities many protesters gathered to regroup and reenergize the movement. others have to live bring its message to the encampments have been wiped out. or not as visible but that doesn't mean that we're not...
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. >> suarez: a follow-up to our recent story about smart meters used to monitor energy use. spencer michels reports on california activists who want to ban them. >> pacific gas & electric one of the nation's largest utilities has had to fight a coalition of people who suspect, among other things, that smart meters may be bad for your health. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: once again today, americans absorbed the news of a mass shooting-- a dozen dead, at least 59 hurt or wound. it happened inheof cy it aurora, just east of denver,
. >> suarez: a follow-up to our recent story about smart meters used to monitor energy use. spencer michels reports on california activists who want to ban them. >> pacific gas & electric one of the nation's largest utilities has had to fight a coalition of people who suspect, among other things, that smart meters may be bad for your health. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪...
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can you put in the some context for us? >> to give you an example, we have had warm conditions in the past. 1930s, many people are familiar with the dust bowl and the heat associated with the 1930s. what we're seeing today is equivalent or even greater than the temperature records that fell in the 1930s. and what we're seeing more frequently is record-breaking high temperatures. again the more recent record even exceeds the heat that we saw in the 1930s. that is the warmth of the last year, the warmth of the past spring, last winter, last fall. and if you remember, the record heat last smer, particularly in the southern part of the u.s. where texas and oklahoma had such severe heat and drought. >> woodruff: you also released a study today looking at what last year's conditions were like and the relationship between greenhouse gases and human activity. what did you find? >> well, in that report there was a series of scientific teams across the world that contributed to trying to look at a number of selected extreme weather a
can you put in the some context for us? >> to give you an example, we have had warm conditions in the past. 1930s, many people are familiar with the dust bowl and the heat associated with the 1930s. what we're seeing today is equivalent or even greater than the temperature records that fell in the 1930s. and what we're seeing more frequently is record-breaking high temperatures. again the more recent record even exceeds the heat that we saw in the 1930s. that is the warmth of the last...
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michael comes to us from new york. thanks for joining us? >> thanks for having me. >> so you are a comedian with progressive views. what inspired you if you did it, did you ask megan mccain to do the road trip across america? >> i did. yeah. i contacted her over twitter which is how most things are done these days and i said do you want to write a book together? she said sure. we wrote a book together. >> that's adventurous. toward the beginning of the book, you wrote, almost and quoting you now, almost nobody wants to own the label democrat. even i the liberal on this trip, you said have a hard time saying i am one because i don't know what the dems stand for. did your views of either party change during this trip? >> yes and no. my views on, let's say, conservative and liberal changed a little bit i think expanded a little bit. but if anything my views on the parties, themselves might have hardened. i can more reluctant to call myself a democrat now than when i left. >> why? >> if anything like i probably have become more liberal than i wa
michael comes to us from new york. thanks for joining us? >> thanks for having me. >> so you are a comedian with progressive views. what inspired you if you did it, did you ask megan mccain to do the road trip across america? >> i did. yeah. i contacted her over twitter which is how most things are done these days and i said do you want to write a book together? she said sure. we wrote a book together. >> that's adventurous. toward the beginning of the book, you wrote,...
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thanks for joining us. explain libor a little more for us, first of all. how important is it and how is it set. how are banks even in a position to manipulate if. >> first of tall is immensely important. as you mentioned it's the benchmark for interest rates on trillions and trillions of dollars of loans around the world. it is set in a fairly controversial manner, actually. it's arranged by a trade group of banks in london. every day around lunchtime in london about 16 banks submit to the british bankers association data that is an estimate of how much it would cost those banks to borrow from each other. so there's not very much oversight over how the banks submit that data. and what we're seeing now, and there have been suspicions about this for several years now but what we are now seeing very concrete evidence of is that the banks deliberately and knowingly submitted false data to benefit themselves. >> so explain how the scheme that barclays has admitted to, how it worked. this is teen 2005 and 2009, right. >> yes. and it's just at the outset it's ver
thanks for joining us. explain libor a little more for us, first of all. how important is it and how is it set. how are banks even in a position to manipulate if. >> first of tall is immensely important. as you mentioned it's the benchmark for interest rates on trillions and trillions of dollars of loans around the world. it is set in a fairly controversial manner, actually. it's arranged by a trade group of banks in london. every day around lunchtime in london about 16 banks submit to...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: colorado prosecutors formally charged james holmes today with 24 counts of first degree murder in one of the deadliest mass killings ever. there were two charges for each of the 12 people killed in the movie theater in aurora. and the 24-year-old also faces two counts of attempted murder for each of the 58 injured. the murder charges carry a maximum penalty of death and a minimum of life without parole. peter banda of the associated press was in the courtroom today. i spoke with him a short time ago. they're charging them under two different near owes. murder after deliberation. a second one first degree murder extreme indifference.
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fu o , icly for us. if we seek race-neutral institutions and color blind laws, they call us racist. of if we point to the thre sed by islicans, t ula phobes and bigots. the only attitudes our opponents hold that could reasonably be called liberal under sympathies they exhibit fo domestic fohepera o voter fraud and the denigrators of religious faith, for the thug erie of government unions and the an anarchistobs who seek to reverselection results they don't like. lilswhago f munists befo , agetrol our lives, to make us better. no more big gulps or incandescent lightbulbs or untad lemonade stands. this all reflectshe reality to mention. inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. [laughter] and justas liberals aren't ho tmawsy edict.ts are no when they control the congress, they rule without advice or consent. when they losetate elections, they descend on legislatures to shut down the very process of deliberation and debate. un ynkhaiv the discredited ideas of karl marx and jimmy carter is the way to the happy future. the book that jacob and i have obatth draich we ca
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stores can charge us when we use our credit card extra fee. explain when it this supposed to start. >> do you have carbon you right now? >> no. who does, right? >> you may have to start using your cash taking it out and having it wouith you. >> last week's settlement with visa or master card will abow merchants for using the credit cards as long the charges are broken out clearly. it's a power shift going on the grocery store the jewelers. they are in power the merchants and it could transform the credit card industry as we know it so eventually we could be charged to swipe the credit card but also retellers might lower their price. >> you would be charged a dollar? >> it would be clearly broken out so customers understand it. but the states have a say in this. >> here's a real bummer as we got tour in the united states canadians got richer. i want richer. >> canadians are nearly 40,000 dollars richer than americans. the figures from this is a tongue twist. placing the value at the typical canadian household at 363,000 dollars verses 319,000 d
stores can charge us when we use our credit card extra fee. explain when it this supposed to start. >> do you have carbon you right now? >> no. who does, right? >> you may have to start using your cash taking it out and having it wouith you. >> last week's settlement with visa or master card will abow merchants for using the credit cards as long the charges are broken out clearly. it's a power shift going on the grocery store the jewelers. they are in power the merchants...